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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






2. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






3. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






4. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






5. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






6. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






7. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






8. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






9. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






10. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






11. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






12. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






13. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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14. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






15. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






16. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






17. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






18. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






19. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






20. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






21. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






22. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






23. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






24. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






25. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






26. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






27. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






28. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






29. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






30. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






31. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






32. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






33. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






34. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






35. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






36. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






37. Multisensory Structured Language






38. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






39. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






40. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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41. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






42. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






43. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






44. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






45. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






46. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






47. Academic Language Therapy Association






48. State Board of Eduation






49. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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50. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl